Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

The Santa Barbara Symphony performed a weekend-long marathon of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos at the Granada ...

A portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, a friend of the composer, painted during 1804-1805. Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770, and so it's little surprise that 250 years ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

What makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Researchers have completed a first analysis of Beethoven's writing style, applying statistical techniques to unlock recurring patterns. EPFL researchers are ...

“He has … the power to make you feel at the finish: Something is right in the world.” That’s Leonard Bernstein on Beethoven during a segment of CBS’ 1950s ...

I cannot imagine what a celestial-level bummer it must be to spend more than two centuries hovering around the ether, waiting for your big sestercentennial bash to pop off and take over the planet, ...

Ever obstinate nearly two centuries after his death, Beethoven still won’t roll over. Despite the occasional efforts to knock him off his pedestal, Beethoven remains more present than ever, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Gabriela Lena Frank, a composer born with high-moderate/near-profound hearing loss, describes her creative ...

Classical music organizations around the world began a major anniversary celebration this fall for Ludwig van Beethoven, born almost 250 years ago in December 1770. The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the ...

At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to ignore, as far as possible, celebrations of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, which fell last month. The uncontested ...